CURRICULUM VITAE

MARIE CURIE POSTDOC

since July 2025

I am a Postdoc financed by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Postdoctoral Fellowship

researching social interactions in virtual reality. Currently, I am at Flinders University, Australia, as a

Visiting Scientist and affiliated with LMU Munich.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

August 2021 - June 2025

Postdoctoral researcher in the NEVIA group led by Prof. Christine Falter-Wagner. The group focuses on mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE

August 2018 - May 2022

Doctoral candidate at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, my research project investigating the influence of motherhood on social understanding is supervised by Prof. Felix Bermpohl and Prof. Isabel Dziobek

FELLOW

Fellow at the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin

October 2017 - May 2022

LECTURER

September 2019 - March 2022

Giving lectures and holding a seminar on Neurodesign at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam

Matlab course for students of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain

MSC SCAN

Master's degree in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience from the Free University Berlin

October 2014 - September 2016

MPHIL LINGUISTICS

Master's degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge

October 2013 - July 2014

SELECTION OF AWARDS AND FUNDING

MSCA GLOBAL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

July 2025 - June 2028

I received the highly competitive MSCA fellowship to conduct a collaborative research project at the LMU Munich and Flinders University

Adelaide, investigating social interactions in virtual reality.

PAPER AWARD

September 2022

2. place for the presentation of my work on technology-assisted differential diagnostics at the Conference on Exploring Interdisciplinary

Frontiers 2025 at the University of Cambridge.

FÖFOLE ANSCHUBFINANZIERUNG

September 2022

I received a grant to conduct a research project investigating emotion recognition differences between people with and without neurodevelopmental disorders using the Bayesian Brain framework

WIFOMED

August 2022

I received funding to purchase an Eye Tracker to conduct research on the perception of social interactions in people with and without autism

PHD SCHOLARSHIP

October 2019 - March 2022

The Claussen-Simon-Stiftung funded my PhD with the Dissertation Plus scholarship

POSTER PRIZE

September 2018

1. Prize for the Poster "Developing tasks to measure social cognition using stimuli featuring children" at the Understanding Others Workshop at the Technical University Dresden

PHD SCHOLARSHIP

October 2017 - September 2019

PhD scholarship provided by the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin

GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

October 2014 - September 2016

Scholarship for graduate students funding my Master's studies in Berlin, provided by the German Academic Exchange Service

MERIT SCHOLARSHIP

2011, 2012 and 2013

Merit scholarship of the University of Graz (awarded once per academic year)